Example sentences of "up a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early twentieth century small business people ( the self-employed and shopkeepers ) made up a greater proportion of the working population than they did by 1971 . |
| 2 | Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% . |
| 3 | The Old Testament may give these few hints of a Creator Spirit , and certainly this thought is found in the intertestamental period — where the parallelism between Wisdom , Word and Spirit is important — but the paucity of instances that can be adduced , and the plausibility of taking them in another sense , does make one very cautious of building up a great doctrine of co-operating with the Holy Spirit in his on-going work of creation . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've built up a great spirit and really enjoy taking part , ’ said Smith . |
| 5 | He , too , had risen from humble origins , from a tenement on New York 's east side , and had built up a great reputation as a reformer . |
| 6 | To split up a great State , created by a thousand years of historical development , means taking a big step backwards . |
| 7 | Take a walk around one of the great art galleries of the world and , if inclined , touch up a great master with a spray-can . |
| 8 | In the fifty first minute , a delightful move with Magilton setting up a great chance for Paul Simpson , but Stowell blocked his effort . |
| 9 | Their sovereign was immensely puzzled by the process and strongly suspected that some of them intended to secede and set up independent states in South America , but the conquests attracted special attention and gained retrospective approval because they opened up a great wealth of silver and gold for the treasury of the King of Spain . |
| 10 | Although they have worked as a duo since 1987 and have built up a great following throughout these islands and abroad , their respective musical experiences go back much further . |
| 11 | The greater abundance of mare basalts on the mare than in the highlands is not explained in any detail , but the greater variability of rocks within the highlands could be the outcome of the maria impacts which excavated the Moon to large depths and thus brought up a great variety of layers . |
| 12 | The press were trying to build up a great rivalry between Ben and me , especially as I had never raced him . |
| 13 | The two Belfast Teams put up a great fight with spirited performances from Gillian Cosgrove , Eimear Grieve , Karen Ireland , Jackie Spence , Cathy Murray and Mary McGrath . |
| 14 | Hereford put up a great fight … they really went for it last night and deserved more than they got … in centre forward Chris Pike they have a new goal hero … |
| 15 | Hereford put up a great fight … they really went for it last night and deserved more than they got … in centre forward Chris Pike they have a new goal hero … |
| 16 | Expert opinion : ‘ Michael Fallon will put up a great fight and wo n't be unseated easily . |
| 17 | In the disastrous oidium plague of 1852 , the company had the good sense to buy up a great proportion of the old wine on the island , thus acquiring excellent stocks . |
| 18 | Knox recounts how they piled up a great heap of stones at the place of martyrdom , and no matter that the priests had them removed , and threatened excommunication , they were always replaced , until one night the papists found the permanent solution , taking them away to build into walls . |
| 19 | The youth team , despite several late call-offs , put up a great performance especially in the second half when the schools needed two late tries to pull clear . |
| 20 | They were n't missed — the visitors put up a great show in an English field that looked forever foreign ! |
| 21 | Our policy has been to try to build up a great team and not to weaken our playing strength , and it was for this reason that we accepted the offer made . |
| 22 | A government anti- hooligan committee has been sitting with the Football Association ; they 've drawn up a great body of information collated by the police football intelligence unit based in London . |
| 23 | They were able to drum up a great deal of press and radio material on the sorry plight of British beer . |
| 24 | We have built up a great deal of knowledge about the historical side of the palaces but that has not been presented to the public . ’ |
| 25 | Now a ‘ searching for something ’ or ‘ exploring ’ theme crops up a great deal in drama and there are many teachers who do not recognise that what looks like a tense , exciting , well-focused structure may be no such thing . |
| 26 | There are children and families who take up a great deal of teacher time and attention . |
| 27 | All this of course took up a great deal of time and delayed the completion of Robyn 's thesis on the nineteenth-century industrial novel , which had to be constantly revised to take the new theories into account . |
| 28 | Many church buildings are so austere and fortress-like from the exterior that the visitor not only has to pluck up a great deal of courage , but also has to exert considerable effort to force open the creaking , heavy door . |
| 29 | In many climates there are long dry seasons followed by long wet seasons , each season giving ample chance for the wood to dry out thoroughly and then , in due time to soak up a great deal of water and swell . |
| 30 | Well-established clematis plants develop a large root system that takes up a great deal of water . |